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The Düsseldorf School of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Academy (now the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State Art Academy) roughly between 1819 and 1918, first directed by the painter Wilhelm von Schadow.
The Düsseldorf Academy of Art 19 loosely associated with the painters of the Hudson River School, the influence of the Düsseldorf Academy was predominantly located in the fields of motif and composition, whereas history painters were more deeply affected by this German school.
The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic fraternity. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters that emerged about 1850 under the influence of the English émigré Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and flourished until about the time of the Centennial.
La Hudson River School fu un movimento artistico americano fiorito nella metà del XIX secolo grazie all'opera di un gruppo di paesaggisti influenzati dal romanticismo. Il nome è dato dal fatto che la prima generazione di questi artisti usava dipingere nella valle del fiume Hudson e nelle zone circostanti.
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The school of landscape painters flourished between 1825 and 1870, which was often called the ”native”, ”American”, or ”New York” school. New York City was the center of it, many members had studios in the Tenth Street Studio Building in Greenwich Village. The term Hudson River School is thought to have been coined by the New York Tribune art criti...
Thomas Cole is generally acknowledged as the founder of the School. He took a steamship up the Hudson in the autumn of 1825, stopping first at West Point then at Catskill landing. He hiked west high into the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York to paint the first landscapes of the area. The first review of his work appeared in the New York Evenin...
The second generation of Hudson River School artists emerged after Cole's premature death in 1848; its members included Cole's prize pupil Frederic Edwin Church, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Works by artists of this second generation are often described as examples of Luminism. Kensett, Gifford, and Church were also among t...
Several women were associated with the Hudson River School. Susie M. Barstow was an avid mountain climber who painted the mountain scenery of the Catskills and the White Mountains. Eliza Pratt Greatorex was an Irish-born painter who was the second woman elected to the National Academy of Design. Julie Hart Beers led sketching expeditions in the Hud...
Hudson River School art has had minor periods of a resurgence in popularity. The school gained interest after World War I, likely due to nationalist attitudes. Interest declined until the 1960s, and the regrowth of the Hudson Valley[vague] has spurred further interest in the movement. Historic house museums and other sites dedicated to the Hudson R...
Public collections
One of the largest collections of paintings by artists of the Hudson River School is at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Some of the most notable works in the Atheneum's collection are 13 landscapes by Thomas Cole and 11 by Hartford native Frederic Edwin Church. They were personal friends of the museum's founder, Daniel Wadsworth.
Other collections
1. Albany Institute of History & Artin Albany, New York 2. Arnot Art Museumin Elmira, New York 3. Berkshire Museumin Pittsfield, Massachusetts 4. Brooklyn Museumin Brooklyn, New York 5. Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC 6. Crystal Bridges Museum, in Bentonville, Arkansas 7. Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, in Jacksonville, Florida 8. Detroit Institute of Artsin Detroit, Michigan 9. Fenimore Art Museumin Cooperstown, New York 10. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, in Poughkeepsie, New Yor...
Notes Sources 1. American paradise: the world of the Hudson River school. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. ISBN 978-0-87099-496-8. 2. Avery, Kevin J., & Kelly, Frank (2003). Hudson River school visions: the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-300-10184-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: mul...
25 apr 2017 · The Dusseldorf School had a major influence on the American Hudson River School art movement, which was founded by American artist Thomas Cole (1801-48) in 1825 and lasted until the tail end of the 1800s.
The Düsseldorf School of Painting encompasses more than 4,000 artists who worked at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf or in its environment in the period between 1819 to 1918, from the re-constitution of the Royal-Prussian Academy of Art in Düsseldorf until the end of the Prussian rule in the Rhineland.
